PHConsidering how truly infantile Sara's mentality is, we wouldn't be surprised if putting the name 'Mary Grace Piattos' in one of those fake acknowledgement receipts is really her idea from the get go. She must have really thought this was genuinely funny, so she instructs her staff to go ahead and use it and affix a fake signature on top of it for good measure. Nobody would give a **** anyway, since these were confidential funds they were liquidating, and the COA unit they are submitting these to are in their payroll. And besides, she and the President were still looking good during the time these liquidations were being prepared so what's the problem?
These ****ing liquidations are a big inconvenience, Sara must have thought. Truth is, the only type of liquidation she's actually accustomed to are the bloody executions ordered by her dad. In Sara's mind, "These COA bitches better turn a blind eye on these fake liquidations we're submitting, otherwise they'll be the ones we'll liquidate."
So COA does what is expected of them and decides to conveniently overlook these glaringly preposterous receipts Sara and her crew submitted. Surely, Sara has done this shit countless times before even with her own confidential funds in Davao the thought of her actually getting caught never really crossed her mind. For her this is normal. These liquidations are just part of the protocol so she kept on doing the same old practice even when she became Vice President and Secretary of the DepEd. As she most probably did with the auditors, she would also regularly send envelopes with cash to her minions whose signatures are needed to have these funds released. It doesn't matter if the amounts given to these underlings are a pittance compared to what she's getting, acceptance of these cash envelopes obligates these people to cooperate and be part of the modus, and ties them to a code of silence as willing and knowing accomplices to a crime.
Corruption in government wouldn't succeed without the participation of small people in the execution of the deed. These lackeys, whether office sidekicks, stooges or auditors colluding with the ones doing the looting, are integral parts of the whole structure. The mechanism just won't work without their involvement, so the spoils will have to be divided and spread in such a way that everybody gets their rightful share.
At the end of the day, it's still people on top of the ladder like Sara Duterte who get to keep the lion's share of the pillage. And when the shit hits the fan like what recently happened in those Congressional hearings where Sara's M.O. is gradually being unraveled, these poor minions are the ones getting cornered and skewered, as the big fish continue to elude the investigations by doing all sorts of diversionary stunts and circumventions, from crazy press cons to disappearing acts and sudden flights overseas, just so that they'll be able to avoid being held to account.
It rests upon the political will of Congress and the people's collective disposition whether a sham of this nature is something we'll all conveniently allow.
These ****ing liquidations are a big inconvenience, Sara must have thought. Truth is, the only type of liquidation she's actually accustomed to are the bloody executions ordered by her dad. In Sara's mind, "These COA bitches better turn a blind eye on these fake liquidations we're submitting, otherwise they'll be the ones we'll liquidate."
So COA does what is expected of them and decides to conveniently overlook these glaringly preposterous receipts Sara and her crew submitted. Surely, Sara has done this shit countless times before even with her own confidential funds in Davao the thought of her actually getting caught never really crossed her mind. For her this is normal. These liquidations are just part of the protocol so she kept on doing the same old practice even when she became Vice President and Secretary of the DepEd. As she most probably did with the auditors, she would also regularly send envelopes with cash to her minions whose signatures are needed to have these funds released. It doesn't matter if the amounts given to these underlings are a pittance compared to what she's getting, acceptance of these cash envelopes obligates these people to cooperate and be part of the modus, and ties them to a code of silence as willing and knowing accomplices to a crime.
Corruption in government wouldn't succeed without the participation of small people in the execution of the deed. These lackeys, whether office sidekicks, stooges or auditors colluding with the ones doing the looting, are integral parts of the whole structure. The mechanism just won't work without their involvement, so the spoils will have to be divided and spread in such a way that everybody gets their rightful share.
At the end of the day, it's still people on top of the ladder like Sara Duterte who get to keep the lion's share of the pillage. And when the shit hits the fan like what recently happened in those Congressional hearings where Sara's M.O. is gradually being unraveled, these poor minions are the ones getting cornered and skewered, as the big fish continue to elude the investigations by doing all sorts of diversionary stunts and circumventions, from crazy press cons to disappearing acts and sudden flights overseas, just so that they'll be able to avoid being held to account.
It rests upon the political will of Congress and the people's collective disposition whether a sham of this nature is something we'll all conveniently allow.
